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Damselfly is the title of a 2012 novel in the Faeble series by S. L. Naeole [70] and of a 2018 novel by Chandra Prasad. [71] Modern poems with the damselfly as a subject include a 1994 poem by August Kleinzahler, which contains the lines "And that blue there, cobalt / a moment, then iridescent, / fragile as a lady's pin / hovering above the ...
Coenagrionidae is a family of damselflies, also known as pond damselflies, in the order Odonata and the suborder Zygoptera. [2] The Zygoptera are the damselflies, which although less known than the dragonflies, are no less common. More than 1,300 species are in this family, making it the largest damselfly family.
Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies (as well as the Epiophlebia damsel-dragonflies). The two major groups are distinguished with dragonflies (Anisoptera) usually being bulkier with large compound eyes together and wings spread up or out at rest, while damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) are usually more slender with eyes placed apart and ...
Calopterygidae is a family of damselflies, in the suborder Zygoptera. [2] They are commonly known as the broad-winged damselflies, [3] demoiselles, or jewelwings. [4] These rather large damselflies have wingspans of 50–80 mm (compared to about 44 mm in the common bluetail damselfly, Ischnura elegans), are often metallic-coloured, and can be differentiated from other damselflies by the ...
Coenagrion armatum (Charpentier, 1840) – Norfolk Damselfly [4] or Dark Bluet [8] Coenagrion angulatum Walker, 1912 – Prairie Bluet [9] Coenagrion australocaspicum Dumont & Heidari, 1996; Coenagrion caerulescens (Fonscolombe, 1838) – Mediterranean Bluet [8] Coenagrion chusanicum Navás, 1933; Coenagrion dorothaea Fourcroy, 1785; Coenagrion ...
The genus contains the following species: [3] [4] Calopteryx aequabilis Say, 1839 – River Jewelwing [5]; Calopteryx amata Hagen, 1889 – Superb Jewelwing [5]; Calopteryx angustipennis (Hagen in Selys, 1853) – Appalachian Jewelwing [5]
Megalagrion xanthomelas (orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly) is a species of damselfly in the order Odonata and the family Coenagrionidae. [2] The species was first found by G. F. Matthew and described in 1876 by Selys-Longchamps. [ 3 ]
Coenagrion ornatum, or, the ornate bluet, is a species of damselfly from the family Coenagrionidae distributed across a large part of Europe and Western Asia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Description